11/04/2013

Saudi Arabia to deport Foreign Workers.

Saudi
Arabia will deport thousands of workers, in
the next 30 days or so, a government report says. According to the
International labor organization- ILO, there are about 600,000 foreign workers
in the Middle East, many of whom work in
enslaving conditions. According to the same report, Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Qatar,
and other countries in the Middle East region
are conduits for human trafficking.The
Kenyan government has banned Kenyan workers from being recruited by recruitment
agencies to work in Saudi Arabia,
but it is believed thousands of Kenyans are smuggled through the borders to the
Middle East each year.

In 2011 in Saudi
Arabia, an Indonesian househelp was beheaded
for allegedly murdering his employer, and foreign workers are usually executed or
receive harsh sentences if found to have done even a minor mistake. In the same
year, a Kenyan househelp was thrown off the windows of the third floor
apartment of his employers’ house, but was lucky to land into the swimming
pool.